The groundscraper thrush is a very common garden visitor in Gauteng. They actually become tame in the presence of human visitors, and will often investigate food sources very close to where you may be sitting in the garden. In fact they may get to the stage of begging titbits.
So what to feed them? The standard fare is a meal of insects of different types. However, (as the name implies), they are far happier to feed from the ground and may tend to avoid your feeders. If you have an area (typically close mown lawn) where they are frequently found, you may tempt them with a little sprinkling of the Elaine’s Birding made Bird Grub Suet Bits, with a high fat and protein mixture similar to their normal eating habits.
You will be rewarded by the presence of a perky individual with lots of attitude and not too many fears!
